The following questions will take you through the evolution of
people ,from hunter-gatherers, people who wander from place to place in
search of food, to that of a sedentary groups of people who farm and
raise
domesticated animals. Have fun and learn lots!

1. Look at the timeline at the bottom of the page. How long were
the
Pre-Agricultural times?

2. When did the Agricultural times start?

Click on Pre-Agricultural times. Hint: Pre-agriculture
refers
to a time before people knew how to raise crops. They were
hunter-gatherers.

3. Pre-agricultural times is based on three things. What
are
they?

Click on "Man invented, adapted and built up food complexes".

4. When did Homo sapien sapiens live and how did they get food?

Click on "next" (bottom right corner)

5. What were the three forms of food products being produced at
that
time? Which one would you want to eat most?

Click "next"

6. Why did hunter-gatherers need containers? What were they
made
out of ?

Click "next"

7. Agriculutural Revolution: How would domesticating plants
and
animals help our ancestors? What would this give them that they
did
not have before?

Click on "the domestication of both animals and plants." Look at
the
animal section.

8. What is an undomesticated dog? sheep? cow? pig? Could a
domesticated
cow live in the wild for very long? Why or why not?

9. If you could raise crops like wheat, oats and other vegetables
and
have herds of cows and sheep, would you still want to be a
hunter-gatherer
and wander from place to place in search of food? Could you move
with
all your crops and food?

10. How do you think this led to the development of towns and
villages?

Click "next"

Here we see the process of how groups of nomadic hunter-gatherers
started
growing crops and raising animals which made them stay in one place.
These
nomadic "bands" became stationary villages that grew into towns and
then
into city-states.

11. In towns why do you think the majority of residents were not
farmers?
If they weren't farmers, what kinds of jobs do you think they
had?
(Think about what other things you need besides food... houses,
containers,
schools, a leader)

You may browse this site to your heart's content. No more questions
though!